Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:52:53PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > Hello! > > > 17.7 wakeups / second. > > This is because you had quite large ARP table some time ago, > 256 entries or so. The code bothers about latency, not about frequency. > > > > I want to stress that this is a small desktop-only system without any > > complex routing setup, > > thus 20 wakeups / seconds seems extreme overkill / bug. > > Yes, I saw this too when powertop was announced and I played with it > for a while. I worried about this until I found out that this does not > affect power consumption at all. At least I found no correlation. :-) > > > > And how to provide further relevant debug output? > > Not needed. I will try to repair this and send the patch for testing.
I just tried powertop on stock 2.6.23 on this box now and noticed that neigh_periodic_timer has these 17.7 wakeups/sec there, too. Do you happen to have a hint for this? Maybe I should investigate this issue. Thanks, Andreas Mohr _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
